Thursday, December 22, 2011

Ok, maybe not the real one, but it's one I carved and painted for my Wife for Christmas who recently decided to start collecting Santas for upstairs, kicking all my Disney Christmas stuff downstairs...weird that there's no snow in the background, not that I am complaining too much but I'd prefer snow in the Winter and not Spring like last year...

I am in no way the best woodcarver, but I think he turned out all right for a first try...

DoodleDragon News...

In the spirit of Christmas giving, Doodledragon Gift Certificates make a great last minute Christmas gift. Right now until Christmas Eve December 24th 2011, around 12 midnight Mtn time, when I head to bed so that Santa can visit. I will match the value of Certificate bought on my site. Buy a $5,$10 or $25 Certificate and I will give you a second one of the same value free...Keep one for yourself or send both to friends...

When you buy you will receive a zip file with a graphic of a Gift Certificate, I will email you the code(s) and if you'd like to print it out you may and write the code on the Certificate itself, OR if you'd like to email it you may do so or I can send these as a Secret Santa kinda deal but please let me know if the recipient is supposed to know who it's from or if it's a secret...

I have also gone thru and marked down A LOT of stamps to just .50 for a week or so, A little extra spending money for the Christmas break, I have shopping to do and kids to entertain, but I am also drawing and coloring to get things done and completed...

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

My kids had a Christmas Sing along at school today before their Christmas break and the dang Christmas song stuck in my head is "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" so from the song "see my hippo hero standing there" we get a hippo hero...

and a colored Hero Hippo....

Every Saturday this month we have had a drill competition and I have had a lot of doodling time on my ipad, this is posted on a blog Dueling Banjo Pigs

and this one is just because...

Coloring, Drawing and Wrapping the rest of this week. look for updates and finished things, no drill practice til next week, that's a Christmas present in itself...gives me time to get things done that have been waiting...

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Don't ask me what an Elephant and a Hippo are doing fishing in the middle of a lake in a tiny wooden row boat, maybe it's the sitting in the wooden bleachers all day at a drill competition creeping into my head, or the feeling of being crammed into the space of 2, making room for 10 that got this in my head.

Anyways I am hoping they don't sink, And I was thinking Hippos might eat a fish when his mouth is opening to eat a water plant, but I am pretty sure it's not on the Elephants menu, unless he sucked one up drinking at the watering hole, maybe it's the relaxation of fishing, or maybe he wanted to get away with a friend? I don't fish, don't have the time or patience, maybe when I am older... but I don't eat fish, except the kind that come boxed up in a stick form all ready to cook. Thank you mister Gorton for fishing for me...

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Well Christmas is just a week away. Do you have your halls decked, your list checked twice? We at DoodleDragon have been busy making creative messes for our last challenge of the year. This next challenge is "Anything but a card". All you have to do is use a DoodleDragon image on anything but a card and add it using the linky button below. Being Christmas we will give you a gift of one extra week to complete it. Challenge ends January 1st. Lets see how creative you can be!!

Gramma

Jane

Charlotte

Crafty Girl

Kerri

We are aware that everyone is busy this time of year and we had 4 people who made time to make up cards for the challenge. We want to give a free image to ALL 4 of you who entered the last challenge! What a super surprise don't you think?

Julie B.x, TiggerChen, TraceyBrossart and Anji'sAntics please email me with your choice of a single image from the store so I can get you your gift image. Put "Challenge winner" in the email subject line when requesting your image.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Monday, December 12, 2011

My life in December can be summed up into 4 D's....Dance....Drill....Driving and Drawing...When I am not doing one or two of these activities I am doing one or two of the other...Samples of the Drawing "D" below...

Saturday, December 10, 2011

OK, so technically Illustration Friday for me has become Illustration Saturday. I have spent the past 2 days at my daughters school for Drill competition, and the season isn't even half over. BUT Santa brought me a present early this year and I present my Illustration done entirely on my new Ipad...

I have lots of sit on the bleacher time and my new little toy will make it so much better because I wont have to carry around a sketchbook and pencils, it's all on my Ipad... Not super clean but it was almost all drawn with my finger...The theme this week being Separated...Poor little bear...

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Ok not really, my 6 yr old has informed me that he wants to be the second in charge of art and how things are run around here...kinda like the vice president...He drew this in support of his desire to join my business...and I thought my teenagers were pushy...

I have been drawing, coloring and taxi driving, but mostly Drill competitions and practices for this month. See here's proof...Seriously this Drill team schedule is ridiculous...

No it's not foam in the dog's mouth it's the white fuzzy part of santa's hat...

Wednesday, December 07, 2011

It's that time again...this time I am messing around with coloring in Illustrator instead of Photoshop, I am including the Black N White version as well...

Delivering toys all around the around the world has gotta make you really hungry and I guess the satisfaction of making all those kids happy would be good enough, but a job with that little extra benefit always seems better, and what benefit is better than a tall glass of milk and warm cookies...I guess unless it's 4 billion glasses of milk and a LOT of cookies...

Saturday, December 03, 2011

...a lot like Christmas for two people who entered into our last challenge. Thank you all for taking the time to enter! Before we announce the two winners (one we picked and one random), let's give you all another chance to get a Christmas goody from DoodleDragon Studios. Our next challenge is perfect for helping finish off a few more cards or a gifts. Make something special or another needed card using a Doodledragon image in NON Traditional Christmas colors. It is as easy as that!! Here is what our team has made for inspiration.